Hello there! I have wanted to bring this up for some time but haven't gotten around to it yet. Back in my days of XI, my husband and I were told it would benefit us both greatly to link our accounts via SE ID. So we agreed, linked up and have hated it ever since.. Issues we face are:
Though we both pay for both XI and XIV which equates to over $60/month were now considered "one person"
Every survey we can only put in one survey when we don't always agree on the same things
Only one of us gets test to alpha/betas
Every mog bonanza done via through the site only ONE of our accounts can participate(Thats a whole lot of husband/wife fighting when it comes down to relic contests)
Every contest we can only apply for once and one of us is always left out
Every forum post can only be done via linked thoughts, so my husbands feelings and posts are judged by my feelings and posts and we can only post as one character so all my posts change to his character if he tries to post as himself
Sure, one of us could buy a new copy, not link it and start there but whomever did so would loose multiple lv 50's rare/ex gear and we would still be stuck on FFXI special events and contests.
This is a lot of cons for someone linking their account to the advice of SE and I can't say I have seen any pros to this situation as of yet so please yoshi, please devs, please SE.. Allow us to un link SE ID or consider that there is a lot of couples out there with linked ID's(at your request) who face this problem all the time. Allow multiple accounts a second chance on contests, even if it was the same person with two accounts they are still paying for two accounts and should have the second chance for the money they spend.
Thank you for your time<3
(please forgive me for mis spelling the title, I hit enter before I noticed "benefits" was spelt wrong*facepalm*)